A key person in the establishment of the Old Lyme, Connecticut art
colony in 1899, Henry Ward Ranger is regarded as the leader of the
Tonalist movement in America and was a leading painter in this country
in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries.

He was born in
Geneseo and raised in Syracuse, New York, and in 1873, enrolled in the
College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, where his father was a
professor of photography and drawing. Two years later, he became
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Henry Ranger is also mentioned in these AskART essays:Old Lyme Colony PaintersTonalism

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